Curtiss Sarikey is chief of staff with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and brings more than 30 years of experience in social work and education. He was most recently at the Stuart Foundation as senior director, where he led work for the Foundation on educator leadership, labor management collaboration, and state level policy on continuous improvement and capacity building.
Curtiss was also the deputy chief of Community Schools and Student Services in OUSD and was awarded the Community Schools Initiative Leadership Award from the National Coalition for Community Schools. He was adjunct faculty for University of San Francisco school counseling program where he taught courses in family engagement and school improvement.
Curtiss is a member of the Steering Committee for the National Coalition for Community Schools, California State Social Emotional Learning Workgroup, and UCLA/Mental Health Services Oversight & Accountability Commission, and a board member with The Society for Organizational Learning North America, Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation. He has consulted with cities and school districts across the country in areas of collective impact, community schools, and social emotional learning.